I used to have a 20 mile commute four times a day on dead flat roads. I bought a super-efficient car (skoda fabia greenline} and played with the speeds and gears to my hearts content to find the scientifically most efficient speed to use the least fuel. The result was that the slowest speed the car could maintain in the highest gear was most efficient. That was 30mph in 5th. I would usually average over 100 miles per gallon of diesel. Spent a lot more time in the car than i would have at 60mph, but audiobooks are great. This doesn’t add much to the discussion here. 60mph is much better than 70mph, and i’ve driven in wales with the 20mph limit in all urban areas and it doesn’t seem to cause any problems - i’m totally in favour.

just shake the box up a bit. you’ll soon know if the cat inside is alive or dead!?

I’m sure the headline should say “once sold out, they’ll only be available on the second-hand market”. Not gone forever though.

Thats an awful lot of time and effort for a scam email which could have been ignored.

If you plan things well and you can ensure the ‘enemy’ aircraft lands in your own territory, please shoot it down. Ideally try not to kill the pilot - this is not his/her fault after all. Nothing has been done so far that will stop other incursions. The story in this article is a bit like creeping up behind a burglar and shouting ‘boo’ at them when you have them by surprise.

So if I want one lettuce which only has a short shelf life, but there is a buy one get one free deal, I’d be stupid not to pick up two. Because I can only eat one lettuce before it goes bad, the second lettuce will be binned before its even started. All buy one get one free deals should be banned - if you want us to buy more of a product, halve the price!

So is the moral of the story that we should buy the cheapest hub from aliexpress that doesn’t have a RTL8153B networking chip in it?

When you hold a vote you get suggestions like Mappy mcmapface. Actually, that could work…

Maybe you dont have too many extra fees, but when you use your visa card or MasterCard to buy from a merchant, 3% of the purchase price is paid by the merchant to visa/MasterCard. In the long run that puts prices up because the vendor is passing on those costs to you, the buyer. Its a tricky issue because if you pay cash, the shop has to store, transport securely, and pay to deposit the cash into a business bank account. That might cost around 3% of their takings too. The feeling here is that if you buy 100 pounds worth of shopping, it doesn’t cost visa/MasterCard anything like 3 pounds to process that payment, more like a few pence. So perhaps we are being taken advantage of?

Its rumoured that in the Falklands war (early 80’s) after a UK ship was hit by a French-made Exocet missile fired by Argentina, UK diplomats massively pressurised their ally, France, to provide the required codes which could be radioed to future in-flight exocets. further french-made armaments would not be able to hit the UK forces.

Every extra oil well widens the availability of the product, that’s bad. Please stop drilling.

Catenary is the magic word here

if the device switches off while in use on charge, that’s too slow. if the device switches off whilst charging because it overheats, that’s too fast. in between, forget it, the electronics will handle everything, and yes slower charging is better for battery life but you needn’t obsess over the difference, it’s there but unquantifi able. if you’ve heard anything other than this advice and you believe what you’ve heard, there’s not much point in people here trying to guide you.

Ah, but which brand of washing machine, that’s what we’re all about here in this thread!

if you are paying for any streaming service that has advert breaks, you are the reason there are commercials. imagine if subscribers walked away when they were introduced!

check the waste pipes carrying water away from the machine because there’s a blockage somewhere.

i read the list of injuries and wondered how many of the victims were wearing seatbelts !

it was only 15cm long. that’s at best a Master Dagger, not a master sword! still too long to be legal to carry out in public though.

you can tell how “working class” the potential election winners are by the fact the probable PM has a knighthood.